Randi Allaire was an Information Management Specialist in the military for
almost four years. Three and one-half years were spent with the Air National
Guard as Information Management, the previous five and half was with the Army
Guard as a Flight Operations Specialist.

As part of the military's program to protect their troops from chemical and
biological weapons, Randi was required to take the anthrax vaccine. On March 14,
1999 she was given her fourth anthrax vaccine. It was after that shot that she
has suffered chronic fatigue, memory lapses, migraines, pain in the forearms,
and other aches and pains. She received no help with her condition and only
denials that the anthrax vaccine could cause any of these problems and that the
cause of her problems was likely the "flu" or too much "stress". She was
eventually thrown out of the military because she refused to take the fifth
anthrax vaccine shot in fear for her own personal health.

Aluminum is the most commonly licensed adjuvant that is added to a large number
of vaccines. An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to amplify the immune
response. Aluminum compounds, which were identified over 90 years ago as
adjuvants, are considered by the pharmaceutical industry and various government
agencies as safe. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has continued to
approve the use of aluminum as an additive to vaccines for many years.

Despite these assurances that aluminum and all vaccine ingredients are safe,
large numbers of military veterans who suffer from Gulf War Syndrome as well as
parents of children who suffer from various neurologic conditions including
Autism strongly believe that the vaccines were often at least in part a cause of
their health problems.
A recent study in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry examined
the possible neurotoxicity of aluminum. This new work builds on a previous study
where the researchers had injected mice with a combination of aluminum and
squalene, another vaccine adjuvant which is not licensed in North America.

In that study the investigators injected mice with adjuvants that mimicked the
anthrax vaccine schedule set by the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program. The
investigators concluded in that study"our data suggest that the aluminum
hydroxide adjuvant induces both behavioral and motor deficits and the loss of
motor neurons and increased presence of astrocytes [astrocytes are cells that
express inflammatory markers] in spinal cord and neuronal apoptosis [cell death]
in the primary motor cortex." When Professor Shaw was asked in an article by
Pieta Wooley about this research Professor Shaw replied "No one in my lab wants
to get vaccinated. This totally creeped us out. We weren't out there to poke
holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my God-we've got neuron death!"

In this new study (also termed experiment 2), mice received 6 aluminum hydroxide
injections over a 2 week period. These mice along with control mice were
subjected to a more rigorous behavioral testing regime than the original
experiment.

The investigators found "the multiple aluminum hydroxide injections of
experiment 2 showed profound effects on motor and other behaviours... Multiple
aluminum injections produced significant behavioural outcomes including changes
in locomotion behavior, and induced memory deficits on water maze tasks."

I asked Professor Shaw "To your knowledge have there been any autopsies
performed on service men and women that had GWS [Gulf War Syndrome] and have
died to examine if they have a similar pattern of aluminum contamination that
you discovered in your research?" He responded "that it has not been done to my
knowledge." I also asked "Has there been an examination of people with autism to
examine the obvious likely link between aluminum and mercury contamination and
that condition?" Again he responded "Not to my knowledge."

It is important to note that while this and their previous study showed
"significant behavioural and neuropathological outcomes with aluminum hydroxide"
that these results were achieved under minimal conditions and that the effect of
multiple other factors in real situation such as "stress, multiple vaccinations,
and exposure to other toxins" would more than likely make the outcomes worse. "A
recent study examining some of these factors in combination showed that stress,
vaccination, and pyridostigmine bromide (Pyridostigmine bromide has been FDA
approved for military use during combat situations as an agent to be given prior
to exposure to the nerve agent Soman in order to increase survival), may
synergistically act on multiple stress-activated kinases in the brain to induce
neurologic impairment in GWS."

I asked Professor Shaw, "In your opinion why do various governmental agencies
continue to insist that vaccines are safe when you clearly state in your
research paper that ‘it also seems that there have been no rigorous animal
studies of potential aluminum adjuvant toxicity. The absence of such studies is
peculiar given the well known observation that aluminum in general can be
neurotoxic under a number of conditions and adjuvants in particular have
previously been implicated in neurological disease'?" Professor Shaw replied "A
less charitable person than I would likely look at links between pharma and the
regulatory agencies. I don't know of any safe adjuvants. Aluminum is the one
considered ‘safe'."

The authors conclude, "Overall, the results reported here mirror previous work
that has clearly demonstrated that aluminum, in both oral and injected forms,
can be neurotoxic." I followed up with Professor Shaw "knowing what you know
about aluminum from your research would you personally use a vaccine that
contains aluminum?" He responded "No, and I don't."

Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids, Adsorbed for Adult Use, Massachusetts
Public Health Biologic Lab, "Each 0.5 ml dose contains by calculation not more
than 0.45 mg aluminum and less than 100 g (0.02%) of residual formaldehyde. The
aluminum phosphate functions as an adjuvant to increase the immunogenicity of
the toxoids in primary immunization."

Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed for Adult Use/DECAVAC, Sanofi
Pasteur, Inc, "Each 0.5 mL dose also contains a trace amount of thimerosal
[mercury derivative, ( 0.3 g mercury/dose) not as a preservative] from the
manufacturing process, aluminum adjuvant (not more than 0.28 mg aluminum by
assay), and not more than 100 g (0.02%) of residual formaldehyde."

Tetanus Toxoid Adsorbed, Sanofi Pasteur, Inc, "Each 0.5 mL dose is
formulated to contain 5 Lf (flocculation units) of tetanus toxoid and not more
than 0.25 mg of aluminum. The residual formaldehyde content, by assay, is less
than 0.02%."

Conversation with Professor Christopher Shaw. Christopher Shaw is Professor of
Neurology and Neurogenetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College
London. He is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King's College Hospital
and Neurogeneticist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals.